Обсуждение: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: TABLE command

Tom Lane wrote:
> petere@postgresql.org (Peter Eisentraut) writes:
>> Log Message:
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>> TABLE command
> 
> If this got re-posted for review I missed it :-(.  I disagree with using
> qualified_name here --- I think it would be better to use relation_expr
> so that people would have the ability to specify inheritance behavior.
> If you want to point to the spec and say that that syntax isn't in the
> spec, that's true, but then you need to justify the inhOpt setting
> you're forcing people to use.  It's not entirely clear what behavior the
> spec intends, but I'm pretty sure INH_DEFAULT isn't it.

relation_expr is fine by me.  It just makes the syntax more complicated 
to explain ...

Btw., so we plan to keep the sql_inheritance parameter forever?

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> relation_expr is fine by me.  It just makes the syntax more complicated 
> to explain ...

> Btw., so we plan to keep the sql_inheritance parameter forever?

I have no idea ... but I should think we'd want to allow ONLY here in
any case.  You can use that anywhere else in the SELECT syntax that you
can write a table name, so why not here?
        regards, tom lane